So sit back, relax, and have a look at the following list of IGN's top 25 flicks worth checking out this winter. Sure, the weather outside is frightful. But that's why you need to stay inside and watch some of these movies!

Awake is a psychological thriller about a common occurrence called "anesthetic awareness," a horrifying phenomenon wherein a patient's (in this case played by Hayden Christensen) failed anesthesia leaves him fully conscious but physically paralyzed during surgery. The patient's charming new wife (Jessica Alba) is forced to struggle with her own demons as a terrifying drama unfolds around the couple. Terrence Howard, Lena Olin, Fisher Stevens and Sam Robards co-star. Joby Harold makes his directorial debut on the MGM-Weinstein release.

The trailer reveals that Clay (Christensen) is a wealthy and powerful young man who must undergo a life-threatening surgery. His best friend (Howard), who is also his doctor, advises Clay to "get his house in order" before the surgery. This motivates Clay to become engaged to his girlfriend Sam (Alba), which doesn't sit too well with his mother (Olin). As he lies on the operating table and the anesthesia immobilizes him, Clay realizes he's still Awake and hears his doctor pal and the anesthesiologist (Stevens) plotting his murder in order to get his fortune. Initially helpless to save himself, Clay eventually awakens -- or is he truly unconscious and this is all just a horrible dream?

Our little Kitty Pryde is all grown up&#Array; or at least, knocked up. For in Juno we get X-Men: The Last Stand actress Ellen Page starring as the title character, Juno MacGuff, a teenager who must face an unplanned pregnancy. Where's Professor Xavier when you need him?!

Superbad's Michael Cera is Paulie Bleeker, the unlikely father to the child who nobody thought "had it in him," and Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman are the married couple who Juno plans on giving the child up to for adoption once it arrives. J.K. Simmons and Allison Janney play Juno's parents.

The film, which has all the earmarks of a precious indie comedy that knows how to play its audience just right, has nonetheless been regarded by critics to date as being far superior to your average Sundance thing, and with hot screenwriter of the moment Diablo Cody behind the project, Juno has awards season written all over it.

"It's more than a teenage movie," director Jason Reitman (Thank You for Smoking) recently told IGN. "Juno is a movie about expectant parents in their 30s, it's about parents in their 40s trying to manage teenage children, it's about what constitutes a modern family and it's about the moment that we grow up. And it's handled in such a realistic, sophisticated way that it seems to be resonating with people."

Based on Philip Pullman's acclaimed novel, The Golden Compass -- starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, and featuring the voice of Ian McKellen -- is a fantasy adventure set in an alternative world where people's souls (or daemons) manifest themselves as animals, talking bears fight wars, and Gyptians and witches co-exist. At the center of the story is Lyra, a 12-year-old girl who starts out trying to rescue a friend who's been kidnapped by a mysterious organization known as the Gobblers -- and winds up on an epic quest to save not only her world, but ours as well.

What's challenging about adapting Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is the religious undercurrent developed in the first book and fleshed out in the second and third. The films reportedly won't delve into any of that, although that hasn't quelled the controversy that's surrounding it. As troublesome as some of the series' later themes might become, Golden Compass has all the right ingredients for a powerhouse film: children in peril, magical worlds, mysticism and science, talking animals, witches and demons and devious plots. This compass will no doubt be worth its weight in gold, pointing the way to a possible trilogy and a monster box office success.

Will Smith stars as Neville, the Last Man on Earth -- the Omega Man -- in Warner Bros.' long-gestating I Am Legend. A film that was stuck in development hell as far back as when Smith was still calling himself the Fresh Prince, I Am Legend is based on the classic sci-fi novel by Richard Matheson about a plague that wipes out most of mankind but turns the survivors into vampires, with only Neville somehow remaining unaffected. As the last remaining human, he must fight off the vampires who surround his fortified home each night, even while he also battles a perhaps even deadlier enemy: loneliness.

More dangerous to fans of the original book is the threat of how unfaithful director Francis Lawrence's (Constantine) film might wind up being to the Matheson tale. The two previous film adaptations, one starring Vincent Price and the other Charlton Heston, are cult classics today but essentially regarded as having missed the point of the book. So will a modern, expensive (bloated?) blockbuster starring the prone-to-wisecracking Smith be able to convey the essence of the original small but humanistic tale? And what do the recent rumors of re-shoots mean for the project? One thing's for sure: If Lawrence and Smith don't get this film right, fans of the book may be hoping for a vampire holocaust to wipe out Hollywood once and for all.